X-Health.show - meet the future of healthcare
The X-Health.show brings to you brilliant minds behind programming living cells, tech that detects pre-term delivery in seconds, brain-computer interface or apps that employ AI to match you, your disease with the best treatment.
For the eXtra Health of the future.
You’ll meet visionaries from Switzerland who push the boundaries of healthcare.
Engineers who teamed up with doctors, scientists turned CEOs, doctors programming AI-powered apps, researchers who abandoned university labs to improve your health.
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Patients who imagine a better way.
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grasp the way founders innovate
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With notable research institutions situated nearby top pharmaceutical companies, there’s more to expect. More medical innovations, break-through femtech, life changing biotech, developments in digital health, genetic engineering, and wearables, such as smart ring, blood pressure measurement on your wrist or ECG in your pyjama.
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X-Health.show - meet the future of healthcare
AI Supported Sock to Kill Diabetic Neuropathy Pain and Regain Balance: Dr. Greta Preatoni, MYNERVA
Another silent killer on the X-Health.show: diabetic neuropathy.
Undetected in too many instances.
Slowly taking away the balance. Implementing pain.
Starting at the feet and unstoppable, if not treated.
In this episode, you’ll hear about
- diabetic neuropathy and diabetic neuropathic pain
- the millions of people it concerns
- why the current treatment is simply not enough
- what change wearing a smart sock for 20 minutes brings
- and all these nerves connected to the brain involved in walking
My guest today is Dr. Greta Preatoni, the CEO of MYNERVA. She’s both a neuroscientist and a neuroengineer who did her research in diabetic neuropathy. She can awesomely speak about the neural pathways involved in sensing and movement.
MYNERVA is an early-stage Swiss startup, a spin-off from the ETH, Zurich. They develop a pleasant, as they emphasize, non-invasive nerve stimulation device for people with diabetic neuropathy to kill pain and walk without problems.
Here is more about them:
https://www.mynervamedical.com/
Timestamps:
0:00 Dr. Greta Preatoni and MYNERVA
1:12 Diabetic Neuropathy or the Silent Killer of Millions
4:50 Symptoms of Diabetic Neuropathy
9:38 Neural Pathways Involved in Walking
16:28 How a Sock Can Help Regain Balance and Kill Pain
22:44 Reaction of the First Patients with Sensory Loss
29:34 How to Use the Sock for Neuropathy
32:12 Can Neuropathy Nerve Damage Be Regenerated
35:47 From Science to Entrepreneurship with Family History
40:09 Path to Launching Leia by MYNERVA for Diabetic Neuropathy
54:04 Thank You, Follow MYNERVA
55:02 Follow X-Health.show, Disclaimer
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